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Thief steals bucket holding $1.6M in gold from NYC truck
WTHR ^
| November 30th 2016
| AP
Posted on 11/30/2016 11:41:54 PM PST by LouieFisk
Police search for man who took a container of gold flakes from a truck while security guards were distracted Opportunist thief steals pot of gold in New York – video New York police are searching for a man who swiped a large bucket of gold flakes from the back of an armored truck, disappearing with an estimated $1.6m in treasure.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: gold; insidejob; nyc; thief
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To: Fresh Wind
Please don’t dominate the rap jack.
To: LouieFisk
Police say the suspect likely didn't know what the bucket contained. Oh, B.S. The truck says "Loomis" on the side of it. It's not transporting buckets of joint compound.
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posted on
12/01/2016 4:09:40 AM PST
by
Flick Lives
(Les Deplorables Triumphant)
To: LouieFisk
That bucket of flakes would have made a lot of $100 donuts.
To: LouieFisk
We now have a description of the thief...
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posted on
12/01/2016 4:13:36 AM PST
by
newfreep
("If Lyin' Ted was an American citizen, he would be a traitor.")
To: LouieFisk
Suspects image.
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posted on
12/01/2016 4:14:41 AM PST
by
BBell
(calm down and eat your sandwiches)
To: newfreep
We now have a description of the thief...And we also know that he's gay!
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posted on
12/01/2016 4:16:57 AM PST
by
Fresh Wind
(Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
To: Sacajaweau
Who is kidding who?? This is an inside job.... More than likely. Nowadays, Leprechauns work for things other than gold ya know...
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posted on
12/01/2016 4:27:03 AM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(1 Tim 2:1-3)
To: COBOL2Java
Was it a “Rainbow” food truck with a pot of gold on the tailgate? (Inside job for certain)
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posted on
12/01/2016 4:32:39 AM PST
by
DaveA37
To: LouieFisk
Saw the videos. That was heavy bucket.
Yes, it was wrong, but I did have to laugh at the guy just walking off like that.
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posted on
12/01/2016 4:45:53 AM PST
by
KosmicKitty
(Waiting for inspirations)
To: LouieFisk
How can they know/believe “the suspect” went to Florida - without knowing who he is or following him there?
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posted on
12/01/2016 4:55:25 AM PST
by
drpix
To: Sacajaweau
It doesn’t look like 86 pounds of anything heavy to me. Looks more like he is carrying a half-full 5 gallon bucket of paint at chest level. Maybe it was a setup with the can as a prop for an inside job. Hard to believe professional security would be that stupid.
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posted on
12/01/2016 5:00:01 AM PST
by
broken_arrow1
(I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
To: broken_arrow1
And he didn't cover/disguise the bucket even though the article said it took him an entire hour to carry it to his van - which was normally a 10 minutes distance - through a “diamond district” with every business having extensive video surveillance.
The story does sound like a bucket of $#it.
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posted on
12/01/2016 5:15:52 AM PST
by
drpix
To: SamAdams76
I'm not kidding about the $100 donut. They make them here in Manhattan too. Real gold flakes are used so I assume they are edible. It's on my bucket list to have one. Maybe January 20th I'll splurge. That is going to be such a good day here in the city.
My wife might just divorce me if she finds out. Maybe I'll split it with her.
To: LouieFisk
86 pounds of flake gold, a lot of hard work getting that out of the ground. Somewhere in the Klondike Tony Beets is cussing up a storm.
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posted on
12/01/2016 5:43:15 AM PST
by
DAC21
(in)
To: LouieFisk
Oh, it was in the article. I took one for the team to save others the bother of clicking to find out. ;-)
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posted on
12/01/2016 6:10:09 AM PST
by
FoxInSocks
("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
To: KosmicKitty
“Yes, it was wrong, but I did have to laugh at the guy just walking off like that.”
==
Yeah, I know watcha mean - not approving of thievery, but if this wasn’t an inside job, it is kinda funny. Guy walking along minding his own business, sees a bucket of gold, thinks early retirement, grabs the bucket and he’s on his way.
If he did a Homer Simpons-esqe whistle as he walked off with the bucket of gold, it’d be perfect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuQiO6eGU0g
To: DAC21
The thief should move to Alaska, open up a claim, mine placer deposits and in three to four years declair that he found the mother load.
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posted on
12/01/2016 6:33:51 PM PST
by
2001convSVT
(Going Galt as fast as I can.)
To: LouieFisk
You gotta watch it not to get the references. But because it is a classic and it’s Bill Murray at his absolute best.
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posted on
01/19/2017 9:25:55 PM PST
by
FreedomStar3028
(Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
To: SamAdams76
Yes, gold flakes are edible.
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posted on
01/19/2017 9:27:56 PM PST
by
FreedomStar3028
(Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
To: FreedomStar3028
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posted on
01/19/2017 9:30:55 PM PST
by
Drago
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